chateau-la-coste art center - tadao ando
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chateau-la-coste art center - tadao ando

Modernist Building and Open-Air Museum: The Chateau La Coste

Located 15 Km north of Aix-en-Provence, the Chateau La Coste, Art Center designed by architect Tadao Ando, is part of a project to convert an existing winery into an outdoor open-air museum including pavilions and sculptures.
Artists from all over the world were invited to explore and contribute to enrich the landscape with their works. They had given the freedom to chose the part of the area that most connected to them and were create something to place permanently there.

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June 30, 2015
mies van der rohe berlin national gallery

Berlinโ€™s Neue Nationalgalerie by Mies van der Rohe

Like many of his contemporaries, such as Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe was looking for a new architectural style that could represent modern times just as the Renaissance or Gothic style did for their own eras. He created an influential twentieth-century architectural style with realistic clarity and simplicity.

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June 23, 2015
mies van der rohe - barcelona pavilion

The Barcelona Pavilion by Mies van der Rohe

The Barcelona Pavilion was designed in 1928 by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and completed in 1929 in Barcelona Spain. The building instantly became a masterpiece in van der Roheโ€™s career, a symbol for the twentieth century Modernism movement and an inspiration for generations of future architects, all over the globe.

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June 16, 2015

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